A trustee town hall for students will be held from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, in Alumni Hall in the HUB-Robeson Center. It will also be live-streamed by WPSU in order for students at the Commonwealth and World campuses to participate.

Ballot positions for the 2015 election of trustees by alumni will be determined March 2 by a drawing, a procedure established by Penn State's Board of Trustees. Ballots for the trustee election will be available to Penn State alumni on April 10.

At its Jan. 16 meeting Penn State’s Board of Trustees approved Thursday, May 7, as the date for this year's alumni trustees ballots to be counted. The results of the election will be announced at the trustees’ meeting on Friday, May 8. Alumni nominations for the 2015 Board of Trustees elections opened Jan. 15 and will be accepted through 5 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, Feb. 25.

Undergraduate, graduate and professional students at any Penn State campus with an interest in being a member of the University's Board of Trustees are being asked to submit an application for the post by Feb. 27. In addition, students who would like to be part of the process to interview candidates have an opportunity to submit an application by Feb.15.

The Penn State Board of Trustees today (Jan. 16) selected eight Penn State alumni to receive the Distinguished Alumni Award, the University's highest award for an individual. Each will be contacted regarding official notification of their selection.

Penn State Provost Nicholas P. Jones offered his Provost's Report during today's (Jan. 16) Board of Trustees meeting in Dean's Hall of The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel on the University Park campus. Following is a transcript of his remarks:

Penn State's Board of Trustees today (Jan. 16) approved an extension of a development services agreement with the Research Park Management Corp. to manage, supervise and coordinate the development of Innovation Park at Penn State through Jan. 31, 2016.

By a unanimous vote, the Penn State Board of Trustees today (Jan. 16) approved the terms of a proposed settlement of the lawsuit relating to the Endowment Act. According to the settlement, the July 2012 Consent Decree between Penn State and the NCAA has been dissolved, and all punitive sanctions eliminated.

As part of his initiative to help students and families facing financial pressures, Penn State President Eric Barron today (Jan. 16) proposed to the Board of Trustees a freeze of tuition rates for eight of the 19 undergraduate Commonwealth Campuses for next year, in addition to presenting five other recommendations.

The Board of Trustees Committee on Finance, Business and Capital Planning today (Jan. 15) approved a plan to bring Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and PinnacleHealth System together to form a new health enterprise. In doing so, the committee advanced a recommendation to the full University Board of Trustees to approve the plan. It is anticipated that the Board of Trustees will consider a motion to approve the plan at its meeting March 20.

The Board of Trustees Committee on Finance, Business and Capital Planning today (Jan. 15) took steps to reduce the University’s energy use through the approval of two design-build teams to handle energy conservation projects at the University.